A must-read for anyone who cares about crime stories.”Booklist
The award-winning author and Emmy-nominated television writer George Pelecanos serves as editor of the twelfth installment of this genre-expanding anthology, featuring twenty of the past year’s most enthralling, suspenseful, and slyly illuminating mystery stories.
A cut-and-dried case for a wily crime-scene reconstructionist is turned on its head in Michael Connelly’s Mulholland Dive.” A terrible secret shared between two childhood friends resurfaces decades later as one of them lies on her deathbed in Alice Munro’s masterful Child’s Play.” James Lee Burke tells the haunting tale of a Hurricane Katrina evacuee who unexpectedly finds comfort from an unimaginable loss in Mist.” And in Holly Goddard Jones’s Proof of God,” a young man’s car is repeatedly vandalized as proof that someone knows about the truths he’d never willingly reveal.
As Pelecanos notes in his introduction, the twenty original and unique voices” in this collection pay homage to the genre’s forebears by taking crime fiction into a thrilling new direction. But make no mistake,” he says, we are all standing on the shoulders of writers who came before us and left an indelible mark on literature through craftsmanship, care, and the desire to leave something of worth behind.”
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Review:
. . . contains several gems . . . The score of contributors include Michael Connelly and James Lee Burke, but also less predictably Alice Munro and Joyce Carol Oates (The Times)
A showcase series finishes its first decade on a resoundingly high note (Booklist for BAMS 2006)
. . . many are highly readable . . . In 'Mulholland Drive', detective novelist Michael Connelly offers a hauntingly atmospheric tale of deception and retribution in Los Angeles (Financial Times)
Book of the Week (Metro)
This volume was a far from predictable delight, an excellent and varied that will keep most readers on their toes (Shotsmag.co.uk)
This is a real treat for any die-hard mystery and suspense fans . . . not just mystery stories, they're great stories, full stop (Sunday Express for BAMS 2007)
Book Description:
From white-picket-fenced towns to the grubby grandeur of the Tunisian capital, The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 is a powerful collection certain to delight mystery aficionados as well as lovers of all great fiction.
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